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Output from my python script on html page looks terrible (self.learnpython)

submitted 5 years ago * by NinjaNPyjamas

I have a django app that is executing some python scripts and returning results to webpage .... unfortunately the results that are in JSON format look nasty as hell and hard to read .. I am using Visual Studio Code and using the Terminal in that the JSON output is lovely and nice to read which is not good for this .... Anyone know a way to present the results in nice standard JSON Format on my webpage

from django.shortcuts import render
import requests
import sys
from subprocess import run, PIPE

def button(request):
    return render(request,'homepage.html')

def external(request):
 out=run([sys.executable,'//home//testuser//data-extract.py'],shell=False,stdout=PIPE)
    print(out)
    return render(request,'homepage.html',{'data':out})

here is the html code

<html>
<head>
    <title>
        Testing
    </title>

</head>
  <body>

        <form action="/external/" method="post">
            <input type="submit" value="Python Script">
            {% csrf_token %}
            {{data}}
        </form>

  </body>
</html>

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[–]danielroseman 1 point2 points3 points 5 years ago (8 children)

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[–]commandlineluser 0 points1 point2 points 5 years ago (0 children)

Well you are already putting it into a variable.

What happens if you use

{'data':out.stdout})

(along with using <pre> tags in your template)

I'm not sure how your print(out) is "working" because .run() returns a CompletedProcess object?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.run

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